Book: And their children after them

Each consulted with his own advice. People are masters at making other people's lives better.

With such a [huge] choice, when buying toothpaste, you always feel like you've slipped into something better.

We love, we die, and nothing depends on us, neither our passions, nor our end.

Squeezed, pretended to be indifferent, they [teenagers] stood at the edge of the dance floor and watched each other with dagger-like eyes. From generation to generation, desire must always conquer timidity first. And how lousy it is when you don't know how to deal with it.

Drunkards, idiots, saints - all these are, in essence, phenomena of the same nature.

Once you start making an honest living, things get creepy and expensive.

Still, this is an interesting thing - heifers. You just want to fuck them, then they somehow manage to leave you for the night, and there - one by one: you sign some papers, make plans, and suddenly everything changes. You no longer go to the places you used to go. Childhood friends become complete strangers to you. And you begin to make sure that after you visit the sorter, the lid of the pot is tightly closed.

He remembered what summer was like in his childhood. It was another continent where he moved with his brothers and friends so as not to leave until the very beginning of the school year. Then everything went differently, the summer became some kind of striped: work, girls, mopeds. Then - adulthood, summer ran almost imperceptibly, reduced to some three weeks of mandatory paid leave, which always seemed to go wrong, which was always not enough.

… The best cure for everything in the world is competition.

Being an adult means knowing that in addition to great love and other nonsense, which is filled with glossy magazines - life for pleasure, passion, crazy success - there are other things in the world. There is still time, death, an incessant war with life. And marriage is a lifeboat on the edge of the abyss.

There are, of course, tough guys who can boast of a diploma with honors and a reinforced concrete resume - a kind of launcher for launching into the desired orbit. These use narrow channels and, when under pressure, will go quickly and climb high. For such an accelerated advance, mathematics is best suited, but there are good directions for those who have abstract thinking - all kinds of historians, dreamers, artists and other freaks.

Underage is such a twofold thing, on the one hand, it protects you, and on the other, when it ends, you get into a world whose cruelty until now was not even suspected. Not today tomorrow your actions turn against you, and you get the full, yes, right in the face, and no second chances, no "public patience".

... The world belongs to excellent students. They are always ridiculed, they have no opinion of their own, they are always shaking with fear, they are sycophants and terribly conscious, but in fact, it turns out, they were right from the very beginning. In order to stake out a warm place for yourself and then live a chic, respectable life, wear suits from the best couturiers and shoes that cost crazy money, it is not enough to be a cool girl or be born into a decent family. To do this, you need to do your homework.

Steph suddenly realized that there was no destiny. That in fact, you need to build your future, as a children's designer is put together, brick by brick, choosing the right paths, because in this business it is easy to get lost and get into a place where you will need a lot of effort, and the result will be zero. Clem knew it like the back of her hand. Her father was a doctor, her mother was an inspector of the education committee. Such, in fact, came up with this whole game.